After eavesdropping on my thoughts, my whole family changed their fate

Gu Boqing lowered his body and tried to reduce his presence, but the emperor stared at him.

"Gu Boqing! Didn't you just say that you wanted to appoint another crown prince? Who do you think I should appoint as the crown prince?"

As soon as these words were spoken, Gu Boqing was so scared that he fell to the ground. His body couldn't stop shaking and his speech was stuttering.

"Your Majesty... Your Majesty, I just said the wrong thing. The Crown Prince is the best candidate now."

He only hoped that the emperor and the prince would forget his words as soon as possible and stop staring at him.

Obviously he was not the only one who slandered the prince, so why was he singled out?

The emperor snorted coldly and became furious.

"All of you, in the name of doing good for the country, have arbitrarily accused the Crown Prince of being infertile. You are guilty of this!"

"Especially you, Gu Boqing. You just said with certainty that you wanted to appoint another crown prince. You are the loudest one, so anyone can make up stories!"

"Considering that you didn't know the Crown Princess was pregnant, I won't punish you too severely."

"Draft an imperial decree to demote Gu Boqing by one rank and fine him one year's salary. The other ministers who just asked me to depose the crown prince will each be fined three years' salary!"

The emperor also wanted to demote them all, but there were too many of them, more than a dozen.

If they are all removed from office, there won't be enough people to fill the vacant positions.

Anyway, he has already memorized the faces of these people, and they are probably Zhao Lingzhou's men.

The emperor was very shocked. He didn't expect that he had secretly colluded with so many ministers in the court.

If we don’t deal with it now, the consequences in the future will be disastrous.

The prince stood silently by and did not express his opinion.

He was already planning in his mind how to replace the official positions of these people under the Third Brother with his own people.

With so many people on his side, if there were more, it would be hard to control him.

After the court session, Zhao Lingzhou returned to his bedroom in a rage, and threw porcelain all over the floor.

He closed the door and beat and killed several eunuchs and palace maids before he felt relieved.

Now, slandering the prince's offspring is no longer feasible, he has to find another way out.

Gu Boqing returned home with the same dejected look on his face. Seeing this, Gu Xingruo ran to the study and looked at him eagerly.

"Dad, how is it? Has the crown prince been deposed?"

Brother Lingzhou said that he was going to dethrone the crown prince today, and he would definitely be the next crown prince.

By then, she will be the Crown Princess!

When Gu Boqing saw her, he thought of how the Third Prince had caused him to be demoted one rank.

He angrily slapped her in the face, "Abolition? I was almost abolished today! All because of your Third Prince!"

Seeing the emperor's attitude today, he almost dismissed him from office. The reason he was able to hold on to this black hat was because there were too many people and it was not easy to punish all of them, so the punishment was so light.

Although he was only fined one year's salary, his official rank was demoted. It took him many years to climb up, but it only took one word from the emperor to fall down.

He slumped in his chair, exhausted both physically and mentally.

Gu Xingruo covered her swollen face and didn't care about the pain.

She opened her eyes wide, her face full of disbelief.

"How could this happen?! The Third Prince clearly didn't say that. He said that the Crown Prince would be abolished, and when he became the Crown Prince, he would find a way to help Dad get promoted to a higher position. How could this happen!"

The entire conversation between the two was heard by Ding Mo who was eavesdropping outside the window.

He tiptoed away and returned to Jin Ruoyun's yard to report what he had heard.

"Hahaha! Retribution, this is all his retribution! Today is really a relief!"

Upon learning that Gu Boqing was punished, Jin Ruoyun happily drank several glasses of cold wine.

When Jin Yuanyuan saw this, she was both happy and worried.

[It's a good thing that the scumbag father was demoted to a lower rank, but it's a bit troublesome that the emperor fined him one year's salary. He didn't get any salary during this year, and the money from his official land was not enough for him to spend. In addition, he also spent a lot of money when Gu Xingruo was kidnapped.]

[I feel like he will become even more aggressive in asking my mother for money.]

[But in fact, we can also take advantage of the fact that he needs money and make him fall into the quagmire completely. ]

[If his mother doesn't give him money, he will definitely find a way to earn it on his own. As long as the money doesn't come from a formal channel, he will be useless! ]

It’s a pity that she can’t speak clearly now and can’t tell her mother about her idea.

With Jin Yuanyuan's reminder, Jin Ruoyun felt like he had been enlightened.

Why didn't she think of doing something about this!

I need to think about this matter carefully. Maybe I can find something to hold against him and torture him.

When Gu Boqing lost his salary, he didn’t think it was a big deal at first.

He didn't live on that salary before. If he had no money, Jin Ruoyun would give it to him.

That day, he came to Jin Ruoyun to ask for money as usual.

"Ruoyun, winter is coming, you should buy some new clothes. Xue Niang brought nothing with her when she got married, so I want to make her a few more sets. Can you help me with some money?"

Jin Ruoyun paused while flipping through the account book, then looked up at him with annoyance.

"Hey, Master, you don't know that our house has a lot of expenses, and my mother is going to build a Buddhist temple recently, so there is not much money left in the account."

Old Mrs. Gu has recently become obsessed with rituals. She has seen other old ladies holding a string of Buddhist beads and having countless Bodhisattvas enshrined in their homes.

She felt that those big families were able to rise to higher positions because they did good deeds and accumulated virtue.

Gu Boqing was demoted one rank because his family did not worship Buddha.

Therefore, she also wanted to believe in Buddhism and asked Jin Ruoyun to build a Buddhist temple for her.

Jin Ruoyun originally did not intend to agree, but in order to trip up Gu Boqing and make him fall into the trap he dug, she agreed to build the Buddhist temple.

Gu Boqing was surprised to hear that there was not much money left in the account.

"How is this possible? There is no money in the account, but you have it. Mother finally has something she wants to do, and we support her. If there is no money, I will use your dowry as a last resort, and I will fill it up for you when my monthly salary is restored."

If this happened in the past, Jin Ruoyun would have taken out her dowry on her own initiative, but today she had to say it herself.

He felt that she had changed at some point and became more and more materialistic.

He is so stingy about this little bit of money.

"I'm afraid you don't know, Master, but the Buddha statue my mother requested must be twice as tall as a human, and it must be made of gold. I've spent all my dowry on it, and I really have no money left." Jin Ruoyun looked at him with a worried look on her face.

Jin Yuanyuan was smiling cunningly on the small bed beside her.

[Scumbag dad, scumbag dad, stop struggling, you are no match for mom, surrender as soon as possible! ]

[Mother is indeed the daughter of a general. Her ideas coincide with mine. Now I just need to find a reason to spend the money and make my scumbag father anxious to find a way to make money. Then I can cheat him as much as I want.]

It would be best if he were to go bankrupt and not let him bully his mother like this.

When Gu Boqing heard this, he became a little suspicious. He turned and went to the old lady's room to ask Jin Ruoyun if she was lying.

"Mom, Ruoyun said that you want to build a Buddhist temple and use all gold to make the Buddha statue. Is this true?"